News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTES OF CURIOUS EVENTS
TAKING PLACE ABOUT US.

| NOTES OF CURIOUS EVENTS
TAKING PLACE ABOUT US.
Young but Gray-The English Sky
Iark-In the Arctic Rcgions-A
Solid Leg-The Car of Jugger,
nant-etc., etc.
THE London Court Journal says that
at a dinner given recently by young
American millionaire, after the host had
displayed immense sums in bank notes
and many costly gems, she gave his leg
smart tap with knife, when it emitted
a sweet, soft, ringing tone which fell
pleasantly on the ear, and said: That,
my friends, is made of virgin California
gold. and the garter is of diamonds of
the first water They verified the fact
as he rolled up his trousers Onwhich
the Court Journal naively remarks:
"The hero of Monte Cristo must take u
back seat" So must the champion liar
of the Western continent. A million
aire with leg of virgin California gold
goes a little beyond the best American
record. If the Court Journal meant
that the knife, and not the leg, was of
gold, it ought to have said so.
A CORRESPONDENT of Chambers Jour-
nal alleges that recently in Melbourne
with his wife and two children, aged 2
and 4, he went to see the animals in the
Royal Park, and that four wolves, sleep
ing in cage, paid no attention to him
self and his wife and the eldest child,
but the moment the younger one tod
died up they sprang to their feet and
made for the corner of the cage nearest
to her, where they stood against the
bars, pushed their paws through, barked
constantly and seemed wild to get at
her; not viciously, however, but as a
dog might have run to play with her.
When the child spoke their efforts were
redoubled. On subsequent visit the
| same thing occurred. From which the
correspondent concludes that wolves
have very strong maternal instinct
and love children.
A CALCUTTA paper calls attention to
remarkable decline in the popularity
of the great Rath Jattra, or Car festival,
at the Juggernalt temple in Orissa.
That the number of visitors this year
should show large decrease might have
ASS'
pilgrim steamers and to the common
belief that the loss of the third had been
predicted. 1t appears, however, that
although the falling off is more marked
this year, it has been going on steadily
for some years past The religious en-
thusiasm of the crowd is said to be also
disappearing. There is no longer wild
rush for the car, in which the idol is
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house and back again, and on several
occasions it has been necessary to hire
coolies to perform the work.
WITHIN the past forty years numer-
GUS attempts have been made to intro
duce the English skylark into this
country. Large numbers of the birds
have been brought over and liberated
at various points from Delaware to New
England, but without exception the
birds have disappeared at once and
never been heard of again, except occa-
sionally, after intervals of years, re-
ports come of one being heard in some
part of the country. Abroad they !
flourish from the south of England to
Scandinavia. Why they die in this
country no one knows. Some think
they do not die, but that the country is
so big that they scatter over it as soon |
as landed, and are swallowed up in its
immensely, as it were.
THERE lives in this town says a Troy, !
Mo-, paper, little girl about eight
years old whose hair is almost an iron
gray, and is rapidly and perceptibly |
growing grayer, and the present indica- |
tions are that long before she reaches
her once raven black hair
will have become snow-white. Some
three years ago the child was frightened |
almost into commissions by fire which |
broke out in the part of the town where |
she lived. The morning after the fire
the mother noticed change III the |
childs hair. 1t has been cut off many
times in vain hope that new hair would |
come in black. The gray hairs increase
all the time AMI she will soon have |
venerable-looking head ON a pair of
young shoulders.
LIEUT.. HovGAARD, the Arctic traveller
who made the northeast passage with |
Nordenskiold, is already preparing for
his expedition to East Greenland next !
summer. His ambitious purpose is, if
possible, to complete the exploration of |
with those of Lockwood, and thus final
ly determine the outlines and extent of |
the great island. He also hopes to as
certain if there is any truth in the story
told by East coast natives that far north |
a strait runs clear across Greenland, |
cutting it into two islands. If there is
any truth in this report, the western end |
of the strait must join Melville Bay,
whose shore line is very imperfectly
known.
The Roman Catholic authorities of |
Boston are planning to establish one
great common cemetery for all the
cities in adjacent parts of the State. to
which the railroads are expected to run |
special funeral trains daily, the cars
going directly into the grounds and all
expense of carriages being done away
with, the undertaken carrying the body |
to the station, the city and the railroad |
landing it at the grave. The Boston
and Lowell Railroad is said to be ready
to run funeral trains at reduced rates if |
such q cemetery is established. In |
Mexico they have special funeral cars
over the horse car routes TO the Gene |
teries.
ONE Sunday night recently, n girl, |
evidently a servant, walked with young
man, pleading with him earnestly, along |
a canal side in Berlin, Germany. Sud |
denly, at bridge, as the man stopped |
and looked at his watch, the girl pulled |
her hand away from his arm, and sprang
over a high parapet into the water. The |
man, attempting to follow her, fell
back, hurting himself. He cried for
help, and hundreds were on the spot in |
a minute, but none dared make the |
jump, and when boat was got the girl |
had sunk, and not even her body could |
be found Meantime the man slipped |
away, aud nothing more is known of the
case.
ABOUT three months ago preacher
from the northern part of the county, |
accompanied by young man, came to
Charlottesville, Ky. The preacher went
south from there, but desiring to send
some soap home placed it in the vehicle
of the young man. The young man
stopped on his way home to see his girl,
and the COW of the girls father came out
and ate up the soap. For a long time
the old man has reen in doubt as to
to sue the preacher, the grocer
who sold the soap, or the young man.
At last he sued the preacher for damages
and the case being tried verdict was
rendered for the defendant.
THE conductors and brakemen have
come to regard it rs a duty on the part
of their families to be at the window